Project Evaluation

Overall I have really enjoyed this unit and I am very pleased that I chose it as my option for this year.  I feel that the project has been very well organized, and that I have always had a clear idea of the direction that I was heading in next.  I feel that I have learnt a lot of new useful techniques and skills during this project, and ones that I knew nothing about before beginning the unit, for example; knotting and steaming a wig.

At the beginning of the project, I found the research to start me off was very interesting and I enjoyed learning about the different cultures and era’s of hairstyles and which ones were best known for wearing wigs themselves.  I liked learning about what hair means to different people around the world, and how it can have such significance in some religions in India.  For example, in Hinduism your hair is seen as a polluted substance of your body that can let spirits in if you do not shave your head when someone you know has died.

I also found it interesting to see how various cultures have had an influence on hair, make-up and fashion today.  Oppositely, I found it equally as interesting as the fact that the Maasai tribe have kept their traditions strong, despite the Western influences that have been creeping up on them and trying to create an impact on their culture.

The final photo shoots I was happy with as well, and the turned out a lot better than I could have hoped actually.  I found it really useful to use the idea of a story with the character I was creating, and I felt that this helped me a lot to think more about why I was designing each look the way I was, rather than just because I liked it.

On a whole I have really enjoyed the project and am a little upset that it is coming to an end.  I will definitely be taking forward the new skills and techniques that I have learnt within this unit, and I look forward to actually completing a knotted hairline, which is what I set out to do at the beginning, but unfortunately ran out of time to finish it before the photo shoots began to take place.

Simple Style Wig

Overall, I am pleased with how my simple photo shoot turned out.

I began by parting a section of hair all around the crown of the head.  Then with the hair in the middle I created a French plait that circled around the crown and pinned it.  After that I then took my stocking cap and placed it over the plait and pinned it into the hair.  I then took the front part of my model's hair and scraped it back off of her face and pinned it behind her ears.

I then placed the wig over my model's head and adjusted the plaited fringe and began to shoot...

I was really pleased with this final shoot and I feel that it sums up my character's journey quite well.  I steamed my wig completely straight again after the moderate photo shoot, and I think that doing that made the wig hairs look more natural and it made it less matted overall.

For this shoot I kept the plaited fringe in again, however it appears to be more spacious and with more gaps between the plaits than in the other two shoots.  I think that this is because there is less hair within the fringe this time, and possibly because there is nothing else going on at the front of the style with it.

However I am really happy with the overall outcome of the three photo shoots.